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O f$r MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Fornadoes Among Favorites In Class A Cage Skirmish By UNITED PRESS The first class A-2 basketball tournament in Oregon's history opened at Salem today while 16 A-l powers prepared for the an nual tournament starting at Mc Arthur court in Eugene tomor row, o Opening games in the Salem tourney matched Stayton and St. Helens and Molalla and Qo quille this afternoon, St. Francis of Eugene and Redmond at 7:30 p.m. and Ontario and Newport at 8:45 p.m. 9tt Mark Molalla brings the best record Bto the meet with 23 wins and two losses. Ontario, St. Helens and Redmond were among the jSvorites. "At Eugene, four teams will meet tomorrow night to start the 16-team A-l tourney, the first time the event has been limited to the larger schools. Central Catholic of Portland meets Lincoln and McMinnville clashes with Klamath Falls in first night action. Medford high school's Black Tornado, as the fourth ranked aggregation in prep polls at the end of the regular season, will "be one of the teams to beat when it participates this week in the Class A-l basketball tournament at Eugene. Tourney competition opens Tuesday night and Medford's first fuss is against Beaverton at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Defending Champion Eugene, with a team completely remade this season,, has been rated the favorite in the 1956 classic. The Axemen, who lost eight of the 10 players of their 1955 titular squad, have been consistent win ners this year and have the coaches and sportswriters polls through most of the season. Franklin, - Portland city co champ, looms as Eugene's chief threat in the upper bracket of tourney pairings while Jeffer son, who shares PIL honors with the Quakers, is figured as the powerhouse of the lower eight. However, Medford and Marsh field have been accorded threat status. Medford's Tornado inflicted on the Axemen one of the two losses the Eugene quint has suf fered this year and Eugene came back to trim the Tornado. The locals also have a split on record with the rugged Marshfield gang and have beaten Franklin with its tall Bjarne Jensen. In Beaverton, Medford will also take on a rated five. The Beavers were 10th in the last Associated Press poll and have been listed among the top 10 much of the season. The Tornado scheduled a "hard" practice this afternoon. Tuesday morning is tourney de parture time for the Medford ites. They will "loosen up" in an afternoon workout at Eugene. Coach Frank Roelandt said this morning that all 11 players who have been with the squad during the whole season will make the Eugene trip. Only 10 will suit down for the games. Gardner Records 288 Pin Score At Local Lanes Jack Gardner recorded the second highest scratch game to be rolled at the present Med ford Bowling lanes and two Klamath Falls duos took the lead in intercity doubles com petition Saturday night. t Gardner recorded a 288 game; highest so far this season on the local alleys. Record game for the alleys is 290, established last vear bv Ray Wise. ""The doubles action was at Klamath Falls and the first halves of two 20-game contests were rolled. Harry Bray and Charles Booth, Klamath tails, took six of 10 games from Bill JIawley and Ray Wise and head ed in total pins 3667 to 3536. Gino Rosterolla and Dave Robb, Klamath Falls, took a 3859 to 3612 lead .on Charles Sullivan and Fred Anderson. Second 10s in the blocks of 20 games will be played here next Saturday night. Anderson reported that a per fect bowling game will be shown in the weekly television program at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. The pre sentation will show Steve Nagy carding the 300 count against Ed Kowalics. Both are Chicago men. Baseball SUNDAY EXHIBITIONS: Bv United Press "Chicago (A) 6 Cincinnati (N) 5 Pittsburgh IN) 11 Kansas C. A) 1 New York (A) 4 St. Louis. (N) 3 Milwaukee (N) 8 Philadelphia (N 2 New York (N) 11 Cleveland (A) 5 Detroit (Al 5 Washington (A) 4 Chicago (N) 13 Baltimore (A) 5 Boston (A) 17 Brooklyn (N) 5 SADDLER FIGHT SET Boston U.R) Sandy Sad dler, world featherweight champion from New York, 'has signed to meet lightweight Larry Boardman of Marlboro, Conn., in a 10-round non-title bout at Boston March 31, according to promoter Sam Silverman. The 11th man will be the spare, on hand in case injury or sick ness disables one of the other players. Players who'll make the trip are Dick McLaughlin, Dick Cop pie, John Foust, Bob Tisdel, Lloyd Cearley, Neil Plumley, Larry Perkins, Larry Gober, Ed Medford J. D. Prime Rifle Meet J. D. Prime, Klamath Falls, grabbed the National Rifle as sociation sectional rifle cham pionship -in competition Satur day and Sunday at Ashland armory, edging Edwin Crabtree, Coos Bay, by one counter in the off hand shooting. Prime and Crabtree both com piled 775 aggregate scores and Prime fired 183 to Crabtree's 182 in off hand. Crabtree gained the top medal in masters' divi sion. Fritz Thoelcke, Klamath Falls, tabulated 772 for third high individual aggregate. Medford Rifle and Pistol club team won the team champion ship with its margin in off hand also breaking a deadlock. The Medford team of Jim Bolton, Lewis Conger, Clinton Charley and Harry .Heidenreich Jr. knotted Klamath. Falls with 1540 overall. Medford's score in off hand was 366 and Klamath's 362. Many New Shooters There were 49 individual shooters and nine teams. Many new competitors enter ed this year's tourney sponsored by the Medford club and Ash land Gun club. There was good attendance from Roseburg, Klamath Falls, and MacDoel, Calif. A sizable group of specta tors was on hand. Competition was the closest which has been recorded in local sectional matches. A woman beginner, Violet Griffin, MacDoel, shot fine scores and loomed as a possible series challenger for the women's national title. RESULTS: Master 1st, Edwin Crabtree. Coos Bay 775; 2nd, Fritz Thoelcke 772, Klamath Falls. Expert 1st. Dean Paulson, Rose burg. 769: 2nd. V. Griffin 767. Sharpshooters 1st, Ernest Brazil, Yreka. 756; 2nd, Sid Comfort, Rose burg, 745. Marksmen 1st, Victor Hansen. 746, Yreka; 2nd, C. J. Hartman, Roseburg, 741. Match I (30 shots prone) Winner, Jim Bolton 200-28x: 2nd, Rose Van Buskirk. Ashland 200x2 lx; 3rd. Theo. Tellin, Klamath Falls. 200 19x. Master 1st, Harrv Heidenreich 200 18x; 2nd, Howard Trivelpiece, Yreka,. 200-18. Expert 1st. Geo. Brantlacht. Ga zelle, Calif. 200-19x; 2nd, Earl Hvall, Applegate 200-19x. - Match II (20 shots sitting) Winner 1st, Theo. Tellin, Klamath Falls 200; 2nd. H. Washburn, Klamath Falls 199; and 3rd, Howard Trivel piece, Yreka 199. Master 1st. A. Haskins, Ashland 198: 2nd, Crabtree 198. Expert 1st. Thomas Carland, Klam ath Falls 199; 2nd Prime 199. Sharpshooter 1st, Steve Washburn, Klamath Falls 197: 2nd, -W. B. Char ley. Crescent City 195. - Marksman 1st. G. J. Hartman, Roseburg 198; 2nd, R. Kemper, North Bend 196. Match III (20 shots kneeling) Winner, M. Meyers, -Yreka 197; 2nd, Heidenreich 196; 3rd C. Charley 195. Master 1st, Crabtree 195; 2nd, Haskins 194. Expert 1st, V. Griffin 194; 2nd, Tellin 194.. Sharpshooter 1st, Frances Smith, North Bend 188; 2nd S. Washburn 188. Marksman 1st Hartman 185; 2nd, Hansen 185. . 1 . Match IV (20 shots standing) Winner 1st. Thoelcke 185; 2nd, Paulson 183: 3rd, Prime 183. Minneapolis Cinches Tie By UNITED PRESS The Minneapolis Lakers stuck one foot inside the door of the National Basketball Association playoffs today, while the Syra cuse Nationals and New York Knickerbockers continued to bat tle for the last remaining ticket. The Lakers clinched at least a tie for third place in the West ern Division by crushing the Rochester Royals, 126-98, at Minneapolis Sunday. The Lakers need to win only one of two re maining games to clinch the position and the berth outright; Rochester has finished its sea son. Syracuse and New York re mained tied for third place in the East by winning Sunday games. The Nats downed Phila delphia, 99-88, and the Knicks trounced Fort Wayne, 122-96. Each has two games left; tonight the Nats meet St. Louis and the Knicks play Minneapolis. In the other Sunday game, the St. Louis Hawks clinched a tie for second place in the West ern division by beating Boston, 127-121. Use Tribune Want Ads! For Best Results! SIPCDDRTTS Monday; March 12, 1938 Reinking, Mike Stearns and Larry Slessler. Ken Kumasawa will be the manager making the jaunt. The mentor said that Reink ing was recovered from a bout with the flu but that McLaugh lin was out of school this morn ing with a touch of illness. .Tribune Sectional Champion Master 1st, Crabtree 182; 2nd. Par isotto 180. Expert 1st. Don Dysert. Macdoel, Calif.. 181; 2nd, V. Griffin 179. Sharpshooter 1st. S. Comfort 178; 2nd. W. B. Charley 171. Marksman 1st. Eddie Desiardin, Crescent City 173; 2nd. Hansen 169. Team Medford Rifle club 1540. champion. 1st place Masters, Klamath Falls 1540. 1st place. Expert. Yreka 1517. 1st place, Sharpshooter, Roseburg 1508. PCL Teams Begin Full Scale Drills By SCOTT BAILLIE United Press Sports Writer San Francisco (U.R) Spring training opened on a full scale today in the Pacific Coast League which headed into its 54th season of operations despite prophets of doom who have fore seen an el foldo each winter since the prosperous post-war days ended. Plenty of tie-ups' with maior league clubs bv teams who-saw the folly of going it alone are expected to boost the PCL back into the strong triple A status it abandoned in 1952 in a vain bid to become a third major league. The loop will sport a new look despite a return to the old policy oi major league connections. Money, lots of it from the wealthy Boston Red Sox, is ex pected to revive interest in base ball with the San Francisco Seals becoming a full fledged property of the American League club. Better Season Seen Typical of the roseate state ments about Boston's entry into the picture is that of John Hol land, the Los Angeles president, who said "The league is lookint? for a better season now that San Francisco is out of financial trouble." Owners also are enthused over the transfer of the Oakland Oaks franchise to Vancouver, B. C, even if a Sunday blue law has banned Sunday games in the Dominion. Portland became ' a' Brooklvn farm club with a stroke .of the pen and acquired the services of Tommy Holmes, the former Na tional League batting champion, as manager. Holmes managed the Dodgers' Fort . Worth club last year. Vancouver' is hooked up with Kansas City, while Hollywood and Los Angeles remain the farm clubs of Pittsburgh and Chicago Cubs respectively. Seattle and Sacramento figure to remain independent. Deland,, Fla. (U.R) The "new look" ' San Francisco Seals, bol stered by an 8-6 victory over Houston of the Texas League, aim for their second straight vic tory as a Red Sox farm club tomorrow when they face Rochester of the International League. ' , Use Tribune Want Ads HIGH HOPES Rookie Bob Darnell tests his pitching arm at the Brooklyn Dodgers' training camp at Vero Beach, Fla. With the Army calling Johnny Podres, hero of last year's World Series, for in duction March 15, Darnell may have to help fill John ny's shoes. Wes Claims Others Could Be Ruled Out Milwaukee, Wis. U.R) Wes Santee claimed today Jhat '"at least a half dozen stars being counted on for the Olympics could be ruled out" if they were called upon to testify about their expenses before the AAU. Santee even hinted several athletes would be glad to testify before the Amateur Athletic Union to "collaborate my views and indicate most conclusively that I have not been an excep tion but just one of the aver--age." The star Kansas miler, still a hero of U.S. track fans, was per manently suspended by the AAU last month for accepting exces sive money at track meets he participated in. A record crowd of 10,200 fans at the Milwaukee Games made it known Saturday night, how ever that they still love the Kansas Marine. They cheered him on as he won a "special race" that Olympic hopefuls boy cotted so they wouldn't risk their amateur standing or Olympic eligibility. The fans "know that you can t live ior $12 or $15 a day, not in a top city," Santee said. "A lot of people forget that when a man leaves college he's no long er subsidized by a college, where when he enters a meet they pay all his expenses." Miss Suggs Cops Titleholder Mix Augusta, Ga. U.R) Louise Suggs' ability to come through under pressure on the final green with an 18-foot, downhill, sidehill putt boosted her into a longer lead in earnings on the women's golf circuit today as a result of her triumph in the women's Titleholders Tourna ment. The little pro from Sea Is land, Ga., curled the tricky shot into the cup on the 18th green yesterday for a 72-hole total of 302 in this "masters tournament for women." A few minutes later, freckle fa':ed Pattey Berg of St. An drews, Dl., who has won this tournament six times stood on the 18th green, needing a 13 foot putt to tie Miss Suggs and send the match into a playoff. She missed. Bowie, Md. (U.R) Willie Hartack, the jockey who' led the nation's riders in victories last year, starts a brief vacation today at his Charles Town, W. Va., farm. He plans to go to Florida's Gulfstream Park next week. 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Malin rode over Echo, 80-57, in the final game of the three day meet. Knappa, defending champion in the eight-team field, had to settle for third place this year. The Huskies stormed to a 76-57 win over Elgin in the semi-final card on Saturday night's pro gram. In the other Saturday ' game, Elkton captured the consolation round title with a- 64-60 win over Sisters. Bob "Pudgy". Hunt of Knappa who went into the tournament with the meet's scoring record of 70 points set last year came back Saturday night to score-43 points and establish a new high of 96 points for tourney action. The 43 point production also rates as a new standard for single game scoring. Malin placed three men on the all-tournament team. Two of the j Mustangs, Roger Dokken and Norm Oliva, were picked for first team berths while Ray John son landed a spot on the second five. Runner up Echo placed two men, one each on the first and second fives. 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